5 must-read race books like The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden

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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

By: Dorothy Wickenden

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted, The Agitators chronicles the revo…

"...it is the little things that make the sum of happiness. [David Wright, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"

-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

"...it is the little things that make the sum of happiness. [David Wright, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"

-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

"...it is the little things that make the sum of happiness. [David Wright, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"

-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

"...there never was a man whose good temper was proof against a missing button. [Lazette Miller Worden, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright, in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"

-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

If you liked the race plot in The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Robert Frost: A Life

By: Jay Parini

4.26

Format: None pages,

In this important new biography of Robert Frost (1874-1963), Jay Parini offers a major reassessment… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

By: Barbara Goldsmith

3.98

Format: None pages,

Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty year… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Goldsmith's Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie book and Dorothy Wickenden's The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

  • feminism
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. The Man With the Golden Arm

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Nelson Algren , Studs Terkel , Daniel Simon , None

3.54

Format: None pages,

Frankie Machine reckons he's a tough guy in the Chicago underworld, dealing cards in a backstreet g… read more

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4. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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5. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

By: Stacy Schiff

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

By: James L. Swanson

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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8. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Beijing Payback

By: Daniel Nieh

3.39

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers sho… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

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13. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)

By: Daina Ramey Berry

4.30

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more

Similar categories in Daina Ramey Berry's A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History) book and Dorothy Wickenden's The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
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14. The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

By: Dorothy Wickenden

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing Daunted, The Agitators chronicles the revo… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Wickenden's The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights book and Dorothy Wickenden's The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

  • american history
  • race
  • biography
  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
  • audiobook
"...it is the little things that make the sum of happiness. [David Wright, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"

-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

"...there never was a man whose good temper was proof against a missing button. [Lazette Miller Worden, as quoted by Martha Coffin Wright, in a letter to Lucretia Coffin Mott, January 29, 1850]"

-Dorothy Wickenden, The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

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15. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

16. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague, #1)

By: Christina Dodd

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kic… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

19. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By: Tiya Miles

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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20. Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety

By: Arash Javanbakht MD

4.00

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Provides a broad and entertaining overview of fear from evolution, to modern day challenges, and ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life

By: Lydia Moland

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

16 Top audiobook books like The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden

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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

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Stacy Schiff

3.74

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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

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3.44

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

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Michael Harriot

4.59

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

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Uché Blackstock

4.46

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